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1820 June 4 26
(h.1) p.297. A 1778 . Lord Charlemont, and the
truly good and wise men who acted with him, took care to confine the public mind to two great principles - the defence of the
empire, and the restoration of our Constitution. In their steps to
the latter, they were peculiarly cautious to limit the national
claim to such a point only as Ireland herself could not divide
upon. This was a grant of a free trade. As to the Constitution,
Protestants and Catholics had agreed to a Declaration of
right in 1641 ; the Protestant house of Common, when
it had expelled the Catholics, would not listen to anyone asure,
which gave countenance to the authority of the
English
Parliament, and the Catholics, in all their
propositions,
and treaties, had insisted on the great point of
parliamentary independency. In this measure, therefore,
the principal men who now came forward, again United
Ireland, and by their statements and publications, divided
England so far as to forevent its acting in concer in concern
against them, for, in the two or three years subsequent to
this period, a great part of England admitted the justice of
our claims.
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